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Rally to Kill the Cuts!
Join your UMD students and colleagues Tuesday at 4:00 pm in Upper Senate Park in DC, where we’ll tell Congress: Kill the Cuts. UMD faculty and students will meet outside the turnstiles […]
Link Roundup and Legislative Update
Hi everyone! Your union president Karin Rosemblatt appeared on the podcast I Hate the News talking about our fight for collective bargaining. Listen here. Legislative Update Your phone calls, emails […]
CALL TO ACTION: Major Legislative Update & Urgent Ask
We are posting today with an important update and urgent request. As you know, we have been fighting in Annapolis for collective bargaining legislation for all faculty and librarians in […]
Weekly Roundup – 5 March 2025
Last month colleagues across the USM published op-eds arguing for our right to collective bargaining! Dr. Shana Pearson Merkowitz, of the School of Public Policy at UMD, published “University faculty deserve […]
UAM-UMD VP Daniel Greene Addresses USM Board of Regents: “We are not the enemy but, on campus, we are treated like it”
Good morning. I am Daniel Greene, Associate Professor of Information in College Park, where I have worked for 7 years. Before that, I worked at a small startup called Microsoft. […]
UMD faculty rights group rebrands, pushes for collective bargaining
The University of Maryland’s AAUP chapter rebranded itself in October to become United Academics of Maryland – University of Maryland. The organization, formerly known as the American Association of University […]
“Professors are the Enemy”: What the Election Results Mean for Higher Ed
We will not mince words: we are deeply concerned about what the re-election of Donald Trump means for the future of higher education, labor rights, reproductive rights, and the safety […]
We Must Protect Free Speech on UMD’s Campus
Open Letter to President Darryll Pines: We, the undersigned, write to express our grave concern about recent University of Maryland’s policy changes regarding free speech. In the last year, the […]
UMD Should Not Fear Its Students and Teachers
Last month, my fellow teachers at the University of Maryland, College Park, began their fall classes with the usual concerns: learning students’ names, logging into the WiFi, searching for bartending […]
Evidence suggests unionized universities experience far less bias
The Maryland General Assembly is considering a bill to give state university faculty the right to form a union. Currently, staff at the state’s colleges and universities are unionized, but […]
Commentary: University administrators wrong on facts of collective bargaining dispute
Louiqa Raschid and Luka Arsenjuk, professors at the University of Maryland, explain in The Baltimore Banner what University System of Maryland leadership gets wrong about collective bargaining for USM faculty and graduate workers.
Maryland lawmakers, union leaders seek to extend labor rights to more librarians, state workers
Hannah Gaskill of the Baltimore Sun provides coverage of new bills in support of collective bargaining for state workers, including House Bill 493 which would extend collective bargaining rights to graduate […]
Stop Stifling UMD Graduate Workers’ Voices. Grant Them Collective Bargaining Rights.
Read Rigby Phillips of the Graduate Labor Union’s Legislative Team in The Diamondback on why graduate assistants have the right to decide for themselves whether they want to a union.
UMD Labor Organizations ask USM Board of Regents to Support Collective Bargaining Rights
On September 21st, UMD AAUP joined with UMD’s Graduate Labor Union and the campus Local 1072 of AFSCME in a rally ahead of the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents meeting on September 22nd.
Gov. Wes Moore, help higher-ed faculty and grad students unionize at Maryland’s public schools
In recent weeks and months, multiple states have passed legislation targeting academic freedom and independence at public colleges and universities. States incuding Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, North Dakota and Texas […]
Stonewalled, Disrespected, and Dismissed
The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed UMD AAUP and Fearless Student Employees in the wake of hearings on a collective bargaining bill that would dramatically reshape labor relations at the University System of Maryland campuses, Morgan State University, and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Collective Bargaining Rights For Academic Workers Will Strengthen Our Public Higher Education Institutions
Dr. Karin Rosemblatt, President of UMD AAUP and professor of History at the University of Maryland, is featured in Maryland Matters, discussing collective bargaining and the benefits it could bring to institutions of highter education in the state of Maryland.
Why We Need Collective Bargaining: The Campaign for a More Just and Democratic Workplace
Between November 3rd and 7th UMD AAUP members voted on whether to move forward with a campaign for collective bargaining rights for all faculty (including librarians and postdoctoral associates) in […]
How safe are you and the students in the classroom?
Our survey of our members at the start of the Fall 2022 semester revealed a high level of concern regarding classroom transmission of COVID19, and the unilateral decision by UMD […]
Open Letter: UMD AAUP Challenges UMD Covid Policies
We received an overwhelming response from our members last month when we surveyed you on the university leadership’s abrupt decision to drop classroom mask protections. As we outline in our […]
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